Sandia National Laboratories, Author Profile

Thwarting Oil-Pipeline Corrosion by Identifying a Nanoscale Villain

June 10, 2019

Researchers found that a particular form of nanoscale corrosion is responsible for unpredictably decreasing the working ...

Engineered Light Could Improve Health, Food

January 17, 2019

The inevitable broadening of LED usage could add value to society far greater than the energy saved in lighting homes and bui...

Most Wear-Resistant Metal Alloy in the World

August 20, 2018

A platinum-gold alloy developed by a team from Sandia National Laboratories is 100 times more durable than high-strength stee...

Sandia Joins Gene Editing Safety Project

November 23, 2017

Infectious diseases: CTRL + ALT + Delete

New Routes to Renewables: Sandia Speeds Transformation of Biofuel Waste into Wealth

November 10, 2017

Products made from converted lignin could subsidize biofuel production, making the cost of biofuels more competitive with pet...

Robotics Principles Help Sandia Wave Energy Converters Better Absorb Power of Ocean Waves

October 31, 2017

Sandia’s engineering team has designed, modeled, and tested a control system that doubles the amount of power a wave en...

Reducing Power Plants' Freshwater Consumption with Sandia's New Silica Filter

October 20, 2017

New filter increases the number of times cooling tower water can be reused and recycled

Beating the Heat with Nanoparticle Films

September 5, 2017

House and car windows that stay cool in the summer, warm in the winter

Biofuels from Bacteria

August 23, 2017

Sandia helps HelioBioSys understand new clean energy source

Bright Thinking Leads to Breakthrough in Nuclear Threat Detection Science

June 30, 2017

Scintillating discovery at Sandia Labs

Sandia Labs Creates Better 'Fingerprints' to Detect Elusive, Valuable Chemical Compounds

June 29, 2017

Finding a molecular needle in a haystack

Testing for Zika Virus: There's an App for That

March 22, 2017

Sandia prototype dramatically cuts cost, time for detection of mosquito-borne illness

Sandia Seeks Toughest Strains of Algae for Biofuel Production as Part of Multilab Project

March 10, 2017

Algae is a desirable biofuel source because it doesn’t compete with other plants that serve as sources of food

New ROOTS Program Helps Fund Project to Breed Better Crops

March 2, 2017

Sandia Labs will adapt technology to monitor plant health and breed better crops

Wave Energy Researchers Dive Deep to Advance Clean Energy Source

October 17, 2016

Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories are conducting the largest model-scale wave energy testing of its kind to improve t...